Thousands of former Wagner fighters are now answering to Moscow

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Thousands of former Wagner fighters are now answering to Moscow

Seven months after the fiery death of Yevgeny Prigozhin, the audacious oligarch whose private army known as the Wagner Group led an insurrection against Russian President Vladimir Putin, the Russian state is establishing control of the private mercenaries and putting them to work pursuing the Kremlin’s agenda. The thousands of the former Wagner forces have splintered into at least four groups, according to two U.S. officials granted anonymity to…